Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
Alex FlinnI have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex FlinnAlthough my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex FlinnI love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.
Alex FlinnIn stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
Alex Flinn